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CostaBlancaPeople 19th - 25th April 2022
19th - 25th april - edition 937
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Torrevieja says NO to tourist tax torrevieja Councillors have taken to social media channels to protest the proposed tourist tax, saying now is not the time for such an initiative. the Valencian Community hopes to impose a tourist tax from 2024. torrevieja’s Mayor eduardo dolon said, “the city of torrevieja says no to this unreason and to this way of understanding politics without having the voice and interests of the productive
long way from recovering employment and turnover levels from before the Covid19 crisis. tourist recovery will last three or four years. the latest studies estimate that this recovery in levels will not occur until 2024 depending on the evolution of the global health situation. tourism has lost competitiveness in these two long years of pandemic. it is still the sector that has the most workers. at this time, the priority for all, businesspeople, workers, governments and politicians, has to be to consolidate the recovery of tourism in the Valencian Community, since the main economic activity of the region cannot be frivolized: 15% of Gdp is at stake.”
sectors that have been suffering from this unprecedented health and economic crisis. as mayor of torrevieja, one of the main residential tourism municipalities in our country, we strongly reject this new nonsense imposition and, therefore, it will not have our support.” a petition against the tax is being rolled out online at www. noalatasaturistica.com where
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supporters are being encouraged to sign their name to help have the tourist tax imposition stopped.
organisers of the ‘no’ campaign said, “tourism is the activity that has suffered the most during the pandemic. it is still a
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